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Category: FACT CHECK

VERA Files Fact Check

VERA Files Fact Check tracks the false claims, flip-flops, misleading statements of public officials and figures, and debunks them with factual evidence. It also fights misinformation and disinformation spread on the internet. This project is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

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  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT: Sara Duterte quote card on confidential funds spending is FAKE

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 04, 2023 2:42 PM

    A quote card of Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio that shows her saying she can spend her offices’ confidential funds in an hour or minute if she wants, is spreading on Facebook (FB). Several readers asked VERA Files Fact Check to look into it. The graphic is fabricated.  Bearing the logo of Sonshine […]

    Sara Duterte-Carpio

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO PH-South Korea alliance against China

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 03, 2023 5:37 PM

    A Facebook video claimed that the Philippines and South Korea have entered into an alliance to oppose China. This is false. There is no such agreement between the two countries. Uploaded on Sept. 25, the video is a clickbait that merely showed clips of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s visit to a Philippine Navy drill and […]

    China, South Korea

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Circulating video of Taal Volcano eruption NOT taken in 2023

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 03, 2023 4:33 PM

    Facebook (FB) netizens resurfaced an old clip of Taal Volcano spewing plumes, claiming it happened last month. Not true. The clip was from the volcano’s eruption in March 2022.  Circulated as early as Sept. 22, the 42-second video shows residents screaming as they observed a series of explosions generating ash plumes from the volcano’s crater. […]

    Taal eruption, Taal volcano

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB page posts FAKE Manila Bulletin headline of LRay Villafuerte arrest

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 03, 2023 4:20 PM

    A Facebook page posted a fabricated front page of the Manila Bulletin (MB) that shows a headline about the Sandiganbayan ordering the arrest of Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte Jr. for an P800 million graft and corruption case. “Sandiganbayan suspends LRay Villafuerte over 800 million graft,” the headline of the bogus […]

    Manila Bulletin

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Typhoon Jenny NOT twice as strong as Yolanda

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 03, 2023 3:47 PM

    A verified YouTube channel is claiming that Typhoon Jenny (international name: Koinu) is twice as powerful as Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). Another video claimed that Typhoon Jenny will hit Luzon. Both claims are false. Typhoon Jenny’s maximum sustained winds, as predicted, will be lower than Typhoon Yolanda’s peak intensity in 2013. According to the Philippine […]

    typhoon

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO U.S bomber plane over Chinese airspace

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 30, 2023 2:37 PM

    A two-month old YouTube video that was reuploaded by a Facebook (FB) page last Sept. 23  claimed that the United States, in a show of force, flew a nuclear bomber plane over Chinese airspace. This is not true.  The last reported deployment of two B-15 Stratofortress Bomber planes was in Indonesia last June to train […]


  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO death penalty imposed on employer of domestic worker

    By VERA FILES  |  Sep 29, 2023 4:52 PM

    The death penalty was abolished in 2006 and replaced by life imprisonment as maximum punishment.

    death penalty, Elvie Vergara, France Ruiz

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: OLD video of Taal Volcano eruption resurfaces amid 2023 unrest

    By VERA FILES  |  Sep 29, 2023 4:20 PM

    VERA Files Fact Check flagged a total of six Facebook (FB) Reels, three Instagram Reels and three TikTok posts that resurfaced the old video of Taal volcano this month. These garnered a total of 1.84 million interactions.

    Taal eruption

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FAKE Google marketing campaign apps circulate

    By VERA FILES  |  Sep 29, 2023 1:29 PM

    Results from the online antivirus service VirusTotal show that the two fake apps contain Trojan viruses. 

    AI, Google

  • Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO ‘destruction’ of Chinese coast guard ships, photos are FAKE

    By VERA FILES  |  Sep 29, 2023 1:07 PM

    The erroneous claim appeared two days after China sailed one of its aircraft carriers into the Western Pacific Ocean for a naval drill.

    China Coast Guard, west philippine sea

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